Director, Software Engineering - Growth
As the Director of Engineering, Growth at Figma, you will lead a cross-functional organization focused on accelerating Figma’s business across the entire customer journey—from first touch to enterprise expansion. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone excited to scale product-led and enterprise growth strategies, build infrastructure to support fast experimentation, and shape the company’s next stage of growth.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Marketing, and Sales to build an engineering organization that’s obsessed with learning, experimentation, and delivering customer value at scale.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
Build and lead a multi-team organization responsible for the user journey through acquisition, activation, upgrades, expansion as well as platform teams that support these teams and cross functional partners like growth-platform, marketing tech platform
Set strategic direction and ensure alignment with company-wide priorities
Scale teams through recruiting, org design, and mentorship of engineering leaders and ICs
Champion a strong engineering culture rooted in inclusivity, velocity, and technical excellence
Drive measurable outcomes through experimentation, analytics, and customer insights
Collaborate with executive stakeholders to identify new growth vectors and ensure platform leverage
Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. We expect all of our leaders to play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring, community events, and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including at least 2 years of experience managing senior managers and scaling multi-team orgs
Deep experience in product-led growth, growth experimentation, and analytics
Proven track record of building systems that support personalization, targeting, or A/B testing at scale
Ability to partner deeply with Product, Design, Marketing, and Go-To-Market functions
Passion for building inclusive teams that deliver customer impact and iterate quickly
Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in cross-functional settings
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
Experience supporting sales-assisted or enterprise monetization flows
Familiarity with marketing infrastructure, data pipelines, and growth tooling
Successful track record of launching and growing new product offerings
Experience in global growth or international expansion
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$316,000—$381,000 USD
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Director, Software Engineering - Growth
As the Director of Engineering, Growth at Figma, you will lead a cross-functional organization focused on accelerating Figma’s business across the entire customer journey—from first touch to enterprise expansion. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone excited to scale product-led and enterprise growth strategies, build infrastructure to support fast experimentation, and shape the company’s next stage of growth.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Marketing, and Sales to build an engineering organization that’s obsessed with learning, experimentation, and delivering customer value at scale.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
Build and lead a multi-team organization responsible for the user journey through acquisition, activation, upgrades, expansion as well as platform teams that support these teams and cross functional partners like growth-platform, marketing tech platform
Set strategic direction and ensure alignment with company-wide priorities
Scale teams through recruiting, org design, and mentorship of engineering leaders and ICs
Champion a strong engineering culture rooted in inclusivity, velocity, and technical excellence
Drive measurable outcomes through experimentation, analytics, and customer insights
Collaborate with executive stakeholders to identify new growth vectors and ensure platform leverage
Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. We expect all of our leaders to play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring, community events, and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including at least 2 years of experience managing senior managers and scaling multi-team orgs
Deep experience in product-led growth, growth experimentation, and analytics
Proven track record of building systems that support personalization, targeting, or A/B testing at scale
Ability to partner deeply with Product, Design, Marketing, and Go-To-Market functions
Passion for building inclusive teams that deliver customer impact and iterate quickly
Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in cross-functional settings
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
Experience supporting sales-assisted or enterprise monetization flows
Familiarity with marketing infrastructure, data pipelines, and growth tooling
Successful track record of launching and growing new product offerings
Experience in global growth or international expansion
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$316,000—$381,000 USD